Proverbs 1
1 proverb Solomon son: child David king Israel
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:
2 to/for to know wisdom and discipline: instruction to/for to understand word understanding
To know wisdom and instruction, to discern the words of understanding.
3 to/for to take: recieve discipline: instruction be prudent righteousness and justice and uprightness
To receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity.
4 to/for to give: give to/for simple craftiness to/for youth knowledge and plot
To give shrewdness to the inexperienced, knowledge and discretion to the young man.
5 to hear: hear wise and to add teaching and to understand counsel to buy
A wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding will attain to sound counsel.
6 to/for to understand proverb and mockery word wise and riddle their
To understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.
7 fear LORD first: beginning knowledge wisdom and discipline: instruction fool(ish) to despise
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
8 to hear: hear son: child my discipline: instruction father your and not to leave instruction mother your
My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching:
9 for wreath favor they(masc.) to/for head your and necklace to/for neck your
for they will be a garland to grace your head, and a necklace around your neck.
10 son: child my if to entice you sinner not be willing
My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
11 if to say to go: come [emph?] with us to ambush to/for blood to treasure to/for innocent for nothing
If they say, "Come with us, Let's lie in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
12 to swallow up them like/as hell: Sheol alive and unblemished: complete like/as to go down pit (Sheol h7585)
let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit. (Sheol h7585)
13 all substance precious to find to fill house: home our spoil
We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil.
14 allotted your to fall: deserting in/on/with midst our purse one to be to/for all our
Throw in your lot with us. We'll all have one purse."
15 son: child my not to go: walk in/on/with way: journey with them to withhold foot your from path their
My son, do not walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,
16 for foot their to/for bad: evil to run: run and to hasten to/for to pour: kill blood
for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
17 for for nothing to scatter [the] net in/on/with eye: seeing all master: [master of] wing
For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:
18 and they(masc.) to/for blood their to ambush to treasure to/for soul: life their
but these lie in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
19 so way all to cut off: to gain unjust-gain [obj] soul: life master his to take: take
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
20 wisdom in/on/with outside to sing in/on/with street/plaza to give: cry out voice her
Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.
21 in/on/with head: top to roar to call: call out in/on/with entrance gate in/on/with city word her to say
She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
22 till how simple to love: lover simplicity and to mock scorning to desire to/for them and fool to hate knowledge
"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
23 to return: repent to/for argument my behold to bubble to/for you spirit my to know word my [obj] you
Turn at my reproof. Look, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.
24 because to call: call to and to refuse to stretch hand my and nothing to listen
Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
25 and to neglect all counsel my and argument my not be willing
but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;
26 also I in/on/with calamity your to laugh to mock in/on/with to come (in): come dread your
I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;
27 in/on/with to come (in): come (like/as devastation *Q(K)*) dread your and calamity your like/as whirlwind to come in/on/with to come (in): come upon you distress and anguish
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.
28 then to call: call to me and not to answer to seek me and not to find me
Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
29 underneath: because of for to hate knowledge and fear LORD not to choose
because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD.
30 not be willing to/for counsel my to spurn all argument my
They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
31 and to eat from fruit way: journey their and from counsel their to satisfy
Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
32 for faithlessness simple to kill them and ease fool to perish them
For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
33 and to hear: hear to/for me to dwell security and to rest from dread distress: harm
But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm."
